Yokohama 8pm Theater

"—Uncle Tsushima!"

In the lobby of the hotel, Yuko shouted out in surprise as soon as she saw the black-haired young man with kite eyes, a pair of cute big eyes sparkled, and the baby's fat face was also dotted with apple red.

Seeing her daughter so happy to see Osamu Dazai, Michiko's heart is a little complicated.

If Yuko can have a high affection for Osamu Dazai from the beginning, then when the truth is announced, Yuko should easily accept Osamu Dazai.

However, as long as she thinks that Osamu Dazai won Yuko's love in just a few months, and there is a little secret between the two that she doesn't know, Michiko feels uncomfortable, feeling like her daughter will be taken away a feeling of.

"Looking at Miss Ishihara's expression, it seems that she is not happy to see me?" Dazai asked suddenly.

"How could it be? I just didn't expect that we would be so destined." Realizing that she had shown her emotions on her face, Michiko quickly raised a friendly smile, "It's great to meet Mr. Tsushima here What a coincidence."

He said so, but he had another thought in his heart.

--fate?skillful?hehe.

——If Dazai Osamu hadn't planned it beforehand, she would have dared to twist Sawada Tsunayoshi's head off on the spot and kick it as a ball!

Tsunayoshi Sawada, who was not sure why, felt a sudden chill in his neck, and his super intuition forced him to speak: "Michiko, do you know Mr. Tsushima?"

Michiko put away the dangerous thoughts in her mind, and she briefly explained her relationship with Osamu Dazai, of course she was just pretending to be superficial.Regarding the entanglement between her and Osamu Dazai, Michiko still doesn't want too many people to know.

"Since Ah Gang and you still have business to discuss, then don't waste your time any longer."

After finishing speaking, she took her daughter Yuko upstairs to store her luggage, preparing to go to the first planned beach in a while.

The weather in early June is not particularly hot, and there is still a bit of coolness from the sea breeze.

Instead of wearing a swimsuit, Michiko put on a casual shirt and jeans, rolled up her trousers together with her daughter, and walked along the beach swept by the waves.

On the beach here, there are many crooked wooden piles erected in the wet sand. From a distance, they look like eternal landmarks standing in the waves and waves, guiding those who go to sea with their own loneliness and persistence to return home. direction.

"Mom, what are these logs? Why are they stuck on the beach?" Yuko has also been to many beaches, but this is the first time she has seen such a strange sight.

"Did you see the fishing boats over there?" Michiko pointed to the direction of the sea in the distance, and patiently explained to her daughter, "When those fishing boats come back from fishing at night, the boat bosses will tie their boats to these logs. , to prevent the boat from drifting away with the waves."

Yuko ran to a wooden post curiously, stretched out her hand and pushed it lightly, and found that the wooden post did not move at all.Immediately afterwards, she pushed with all her strength, but the stake still didn't move.

"Mom, the sand is so soft why are they so firm?"

"Because the sand here has met the water. The sea water binds them tightly together and it becomes difficult to separate them. Do you think the place we are stepping on now is stronger than the sand on it?"

Yuko raised her foot and stomped on the spot a few times, then ran to the dry sandy beach and walked a few steps.When she found out that it was true, she couldn't help but clapped her hands and shouted happily: "It's really so!"

"Ah! Mom, look, there is a little conch that can move!"

Yuko who returned to Michiko's side suddenly squatted down again, as if discovering some new land, pointing to the waves under her feet and exclaiming.

Michiko stopped after hearing the sound.

I saw a small conch with black spots in the clear and transparent sea rolling towards the deep sea at a very fast speed.At first glance, it seems that it is just being pushed by the waves, but if you look closely, you will find that there are countless tiny feet sticking out of the conch hole, pushing it forward.

"It's hermit crabs moving."

Michiko picked up the little conch, and the hermit crab hiding inside poked its head out of the dark hole and then shrank back immediately, looking silly but cautious.

"Mom, it looks so small, let's put it back in the sea!"

"Ok."

Putting the little conch back into the sea, Michiko took out her mobile phone to record the moving process of the hermit crab.When the video was recorded halfway, a "huge wave" hit, and Little Conch was unfortunately stuck in an awkward position.

Seeing that the hermit crab tried hard several times but failed to turn the conch over, Michiko couldn't help reaching out to help it.

When the fingertips were about to plunge into the sea, they were suddenly grabbed by someone, and the bony fingers took her hand away from the sea with an attitude that could not be refused.

"... Mr. Tsushima?"

Seeing Osamu Dazai appearing beside her, Michiko was a little surprised.She stood up, subconsciously wanting to withdraw her hand that was hurt by clenching, and Dazai let go of it.

cloudless

It was as if the force that almost crushed Michiko's hand just now was just her illusion.

"Miss Ishihara, there are many dangerous creatures on the seashore. If you are not careful, you will stumble. ——For example, the sea anemone you almost encountered just now."

Michiko's eyes fell on the place where Dazai's right hand was pointing, and as expected, under the cover of the flowing sea water, a small sea anemone was taking root in the sand.

"Uncle Tsushima, is it really poisonous? It looks so beautiful."

"Of course," Dazai put his hands back into his trouser pockets, and said to Yuko seriously, "Many good-looking and beautiful creatures are actually very dangerous. The same is true for humans, so Yuko But you have to keep your eyes open all the time, and you can't be fooled."

Yuko nodded ignorantly: "I remember! So the seaside is so dangerous..."

Dazai rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Does Yuko want to see a windmill? It is said that there is a large windmill on the beach that is used to generate electricity. Not only is it not dangerous, but it is also very fun."

Yuko's eyes lit up immediately, and she looked at Michiko expectantly: "Mom! Mom! Can I go to see the windmill with Uncle Tsushima?"

Michiko: ...

Can she say bad?Even if she saw the whole process of Dazai's "abduction" of her daughter, she couldn't find a reason to refute it.

With complicated feelings, Michiko acquiesced to Yuko's wish to see the windmill.

At first, Michiko was still closely behind Dazai and Yuko, but as time went by, whether it was intentional or not, the distance between the two gradually widened.

Yuko, who ran at the front, stopped after realizing this: "Ah! Uncle Tsushima, we are going too fast! Mom can't even keep up."

"Then let's stop for a while and wait for Yuko's mother?"

"Uh-huh!"

Yuko stood on the sand dune, and answered like a little adult.She clasped her arms around her chest, and then complained: "Mom is really, she said she would go out with me to play, but when she met Uncle A Gang, she deliberately left behind."

Hearing the second half of the sentence, the smile on Dazai's face froze instantly.

It was as if the prediction and judgment on something had been overturned all at once, and even the little bit of calm and pretense that remained could not be maintained.

He turned back and looked at the two figures walking side by side in the distance, his slender eyelashes drooped, covering the haze and gloom rolling in his iris eyes.

……

On the way to see the windmill, Michiko deliberately lagged behind by a certain distance, leaving Dazai and Yuko a space to be alone.

It was also at this time that she met Tsunayoshi Sawada who came to find Dazai.

"—It seems that my intuition is correct. The relationship between you, Michiko, and Tsushima-san is not as simple as 'Yuko's favorite teacher and respected senior'."

Michiko glanced at the brown-haired young man who was walking beside her, and instead of answering, asked, "When did you become so gossipy, Tsuna?"

Sawada Tsunayoshi showed helplessness: "I'm not gossip, I only care about you out of childhood friendship."

Michiko lowered her eyes and remained silent.

Sometimes, she is really displeased with the super straightforwardness of the Sawada family, which makes people unable to hide anything they want to hide.It's just that Michiko didn't expect to confide her heart so quickly, after all, "coming and going" is in line with her character.

So, she raised her eyes to Sawada Tsunayoshi, smiled and said, "I am also very concerned about you. I wonder what happened to the issue of Peng Gelie's tenth generation being urged to marry?"

What Michiko didn't expect was that Tsunayoshi Sawada replied lightly, "It has been resolved".

Not only that, but he also explained to Michiko the inside story of the so-called marriage urging and marriage.It turned out that this also involved the struggle between the old and new factions within Pengo Lie, and the marriage partner was the Merino family launched by the old faction.Sawada Tsunayoshi didn't want to solve this problem in an overly radical way, so starting from the Merino family became a good choice.

Now, the Murino family no longer exists, and Tsunayoshi Sawada naturally doesn't need to worry about urging marriages or marriages.

"—So, when you suddenly mentioned the marriage at the airport, you actually wanted to cooperate with me against the Merino family?"

Sawada Tsunayoshi didn't deny it, and Michiko acquiesced that his answer was yes.

For some reason, I felt relieved.

Michiko looked back, and she walked forward with her hands behind her back, kicking the sand with the soles of her feet.

"...Gang, you also know that I have lost very important memories, right? Even if I finally recalled the experience before the age of 12, there are still six years of memories that have not been retrieved."

"...I've always had the feeling that there was something very important to me in those six lost years. If I don't get 'it' back, then my life won't be complete, but I'm worried Getting 'it' back would completely disrupt my life now."

"—Is it related to Mr. Tsushima?"

Michiko admitted it very frankly, and then she turned her head and asked with an attitude of "a student asking for advice": "Gang, what happened between you and Kyoko? Is the emotional setback really such a big blow? You have been deeply involved, and even dare to mention the word 'marriage' to anyone."

"I just suddenly realized that "love" is not a sufficient condition for a life together.Let go because you love, and finally let go because you don't love.As for what you said about finding someone to marry—"

Speaking of this, Sawada Tsunayoshi was a little dumbfounded: "I will not do such a thing that is not responsible for my own life and the life of my partner. Michiko, you don't need to remember the 'that time at the airport' until now, right?"

"That's good," Michiko said reassuringly, "It's also because of the friendship of my childhood sweetheart, I'm still very pleased to see you come out of the trough of broken love."

Sawada Tsunayoshi just lowered his head and smiled, without saying anything.